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    FURTHER READING

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    1 Royal College of Physicians. Commissioning Clinical Genetics Services, 1998.

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    Unit pricing: public funding of genetics research

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    The Public Health Genetics Unit was established in Cambridge in 1997 because it was clear that, generally, public health doctors and policymakers were ignorant of the sciences of genetics and molecular biology, and their public health and policy implications.

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    Lessons of first IM&T strategy 'not learned'

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    this week

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    Events

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    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254. E-mail:ulij@healthcare.emap.co.uk

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    Wales director under fire at inquiry

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    A senior Welsh Office official was this week accused of overlooking concerns about paediatric cardiac surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary in the 1980s.

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    WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL

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    Whatever became of health action zones? Since most exist almost entirely in the collective imaginations of their partner organisations ('early days yet to see results... process of building partnerships takes time...'), they are perhaps the ultimate in NHS virtual reality - and therefore natural web entities.

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    Managers of community trust are doing a fine job

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    I am writing in connection with the news focus 'Open wounds' (22 April) in which I was extensively quoted.

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    The Marples CV: coasting to success

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    Chief executive of Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch trust since 1992.

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    Up close and personal

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    Interpersonal skills for nurses and health care professionals

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    Trust chief executive scoops director's post at IHSM

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    A long-serving trust chief executive is the new director of the financially troubled Institute of Health Services Management, following the departure of Karen Caines.

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    Ex-manager in court on fraud and deception charges

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    A former trust manager has appeared in court on charges of fraud and deception. Walter James Hurley, 49, former manager of sub-contracted services for Lifecare trust in Surrey, is accused of committing six offences involving up to £500,000.

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    Medical negligence changes will force swift 'owning up'

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    Radical changes to the way medical negligence cases are handled came into force this week.

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    A case of modified rapture

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    opinion

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    Carers' support for NICE should not be taken for granted

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    I agree with you that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence still has a long way to go before there can be real change (Comment, 8 April).

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    First past the post: increasing demand for cancer tests

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    An obvious way to dissuade people from resorting to postal tests is to give them fast, efficient access to NHS services.

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    Campaigners slam 'parachuting in' of high-level Executive secondee

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    Hospital campaigners have accused two Hertfordshire trusts of 'parachuting in' a senior NHS Executive manager to 'force through unpopular changes in healthcare'.

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    Counter-fraud teams bring hundreds of jobs

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    The NHS is to recruit hundreds of senior and middle managers as counter-fraud specialists for a £3m network of 'fraudbusting teams'.

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    Briefing encounters

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    genetics services

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    in brief

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    news

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    in brief

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    The public sector ombudsman system is to be reviewed to examine the scope for a more 'joined-up' approach to dealing with complaints from the public, said Cabinet Office minister Jack Cunningham. It will consider whether current arrangements in England 'are in the best interests of complainants' and whether the service ...